Maoist guerrillas stepped up their campaign...

REBEL ATTACK.

November 11, 1989

LIMA, PERU — REBEL ATTACK. Maoist guerrillas stepped up their campaign to frighten Peruvians out of voting in Sunday's municipal elections, killing candidates and small-town officials across the Andean highlands, police said Friday. Shining Path guerrillas swept into the southern town of San Anton near the Bolivian border Thursday night, killing the town's mayor, his secretary and a candidate for mayor, police said. The guerrillas, fighting since 1980 to overthrow the government and replace it with a worker-peasant state, call the elections a farce.